[FWTools] ogr2ogr and asterisks in Windows XP

[Frank Warmerdam]

Simon Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to convert VMAP0 data to ESRI shapefiles using ogr2ogr. The
> problem is that all the files it has to create from the VMAP0 data
> have asterisks in their name, eg:
> 
> 1: libref at libref(*)_line (Line String)
> 2: libreft at libref(*)_text (Point)
> 3: tileref at tileref(*)_area (Polygon)
> 4: tilereft at tileref(*)_text (Point)
> 5: polbndp at bnd(*)_point (Point)
> 
> The Windows file system doesn't allow the creation of files with
> asterisks in their name, so as soon as I run the following command:
> 
> ogr2ogr -spat -3 52 0 55 -f "ESRI Shapefile" C:\vmap
> gltp:/vrf/P:/vmap/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia
> 
> I immediately get the error:
> 
> ERROR 1: Failed to create file C:\vmap\libref at libref(*)_line.shp.
> 
> Is there any way I can tell ogr2ogr to omit the asterisk?

Simon,

You can use the -nln switch to override the layer name in the output
datasource.

eg.

ogr2ogr -spat -3 52 0 55 -f "ESRI Shapefile" C:\vmap  \
    gltp:/vrf/P:/vmap/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia           \
    -nln libref "libref at libref(*)_line"

Note that you will need to convert things one layer at a time to accomplish
this.

Best regards,

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